Jake Gyllenhaal: baldness, power lunch and Donnie Darko's Tenth birthday

"Matt Damon and Jake Gyllenhaal are proving that bald is indeed beautiful. The actors have both been spotted sporting shaved heads recently, and we can’t say we mind!
Damon showed off his new look while heading to the post office in downtown Vancouver on Wednesday. Is the actor trying to go incognito? PEOPLE’s Sexiest Man Alive recently said that unlike his pal Brad Pitt, he doesn’t cause an international incident when he leaves his house — but this haircut could easily create a stir.
The day before, Gyllenhaal was photographed on location in Los Angeles where he’s shooting End of Watch; the actor shaved his head to play the role of an LAPD officer opposite Michael Peña. Gyllenhaal, who previously rocked a hairless head for the film Jarhead, confidently pulls off the no-locks look. But, who wears — or doesn’t wear — his bald head best?" –Alla Byrne
Source: stylenews.peoplestylewatch.com

"Jake Gyllenhaal; Alanis Morissette; Ellen Pompeo; John Salley, the retired N.B.A. player; Orlando Bloom; Patricia and Rosanna Arquette; Rain and Joaquin Phoenix; and cast members of “Glee,” “Lost” and “Mad Men” have all been spotted at the restaurant since it opened in March, according to Ryland Engelhart, an owner. Sacha Baron Cohen, Ashton Kutcher and Forest Whitaker have dined there as well, he said. Angela Bassett, Vincent Gallo and the singer Jason Mraz (an investor who named his recent tour “Gratitude Café”) eat at the bar almost daily". Source: www.nytimes.com

Jake Gyllenhaal and Jena Malone as Donnie and Gretchen in "Donnie Darko" directed by Richard Kelley

"Jake Gyllenhaal's claim to fame as a cult icon is already reaching its tenth anniversary, making just about everyone who was aware of the movie when it first came out feel really, really old. To celebrate the occasion, Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment will be ringing in the anniversary of Donnie Darko with a brand new 10th Anniversary Edition in sparkling high-definition come July 26, 2011.

This new set will be pretty hefty in providing a stellar collection for the cherished and storied film, containing four discs comprised of two DVDs and two Blu-rays, collectible artwork, a Digital Copy, and both theatrical and Director's Cut editions of the film". Source: uk.bluray.ign.com

Frank Sinatra & functioning attractive smokers

"Drink, drink, drink. Smoke, smoke, smoke. Shmuck, shmuck, shmuck!" —Frank Sinatra, chastising himself for the excesses that made his voice raspy during the taping of a '60s TV special. Pictured: In 1964, Frank savors those vices backstage at the Sands Hotel and Casino, where he swung with the Count Basie Band. Out of that landmark collaboration came the legendary live album Sinatra at the Sands.

Anthony Summers, author of "Frank Sinatra: My life" (2006): "One of the strange anomalies is that a man, who not only drank so much but smoked so much - those untipped Camel cigarettes - for years and years and years, was still able to put out such a wonderful voice over such a long period. We learned that he went off the booze and off the cigarettes for a period before he made an album".

Frank Sinatra lights a cigarette for Natalie Wood

Summers claims the ravages of heavy drinking and smoking took their toll on Frank Sinatra's famous voice - and this can clearly be heard on some recordings. The biographer adds, "The booze and the cigarettes and the sorrows in his life affected his voice. You hear him do 'One For My Baby' in the late 50s, and then you hear the recording he did of the same song just before the 50s and they're as different as day is from night. The voice, by then, has been tempered, weathered by the booze, the cigarettes, the sadnesses and he's clearly living the song more the second time around."

Dean Martin and Frank Sinatra photographed in a recording studio by LIFE's Allan Grant, take a cigarette break during the recording of Sleep Warm in 1958. The album was re-released in 1963 with a much more direct title: Dean Martin Sings/Sinatra Conducts.

Frank Sinatra smoking a cigarette in the studio during a rehearsal in 1965.

"He wears the mask of an armchair philanderer with bottles and broads on his mind and seven kids in his swimming pool — a character with obvious appeal for both sexes. Highball glass in hand, he always looks faintly surprised to find the camera upon him, and his first bleary, self-deprecating crack establishes that neither he nor his audience can be quite sure what he will do next." —From LIFE's review of The Dean Martin Show, 5/26/1967. Photographed by LIFE's Allan Grant, Dean Martin is smoking and adjusting his cufflinks backstage before a performance in Vegas, 1958.

More attractive functioning smokers:
Lindsay Lohan
Ava Gardner
Diane Lane
Paul Newman
Shia Labeouf
Monica Bellucci
Ida Lupino
Ryan Gosling
James MacAvoy
Humphrey Bogart
Kevin Spacey
Robert Pattinson

Breaking Dawn Comic Con cards with Kristen Stewart and Robert Pattinson

Breaking Dawn Comic Con cards with Kristen Stewart and Robert Pattinson

Nikki Reed swings by another group of great fans to pose for photos and sign autographs at Comic Con in San Diego

Happy 73rd Anniversary, Natalie Wood!

Natalie Wood (Born: Natalia Nikolaevna Zakharenko July 20, 1938 in San Francisco, California, USA - Died: November 29, 1981 in Santa Catalina Island, California, USA)

Natalie Wood & Warren Beatty as Wilma Dean 'Deanie' Loomis and Bud Stamper in "Splendor In The Grass" directed by Elia Kazan in 1961


The scene where Deanie (Natalie Wood) becomes overwhelmed over Bud's (Warren Beatty) split with her.

Gwyneth Paltrow photoshoot for COACH Fall 2011

Jake Gyllenhaal with Gwyneth Paltrow and John Madden attending the Toronto International Film Festival Premiere of "Proof" (2005) on 12nd September 2005

First look: Gwyneth Paltrow for COACH Fall 2011 photographed by Peter Lindbergh

Gwyneth Paltrow in Detour magazine, photoshoot (1997)

"Gwyneth's latest star turn, back to playing the all-American good-girl as the star of the new adverts for Coach, the American It-handbag brand which has serious designs on the UK and Europe. Coach is sort of a bit like an American version of Mulberry, but in the Somerset rather than Alexa Chung era. All blonde and uptown and well-bred in this campaign, Gwyneth is going back to her roots. Maybe it's time for the Gwyneth-haters to forgive and forget. But probably not until she gives up the Goop". Source: www.guardian.co.uk

Jake Gyllenhaal at 'Source Code' Press Conference in Beverly Hills

Jake Gyllenhaal poses at 'Source Code' Press Conference on 18th March 2011 in Beverly Hills, Los Angeles

Jake Gyllenhaal and Michelle Monaghan attending The Cinema Society & Coach Host A Screening Of "Source Code" on 31st March 2011

"The three lead performances from Jake Gyllenhaal, Michelle Monaghan and Vera Farmiga are all excellent in their own right. Gyllenhaal turns in a pitch-perfect turn as Captain Colter Stevens, letting the character have a few light moments by acknowledging the convolution of the premise, but switching back to a convincing state of stubborn determination and disorientation on a dime (factoid: attained in part by Jones cycling random bits of obscure music through an earpiece he gave Gyllenhaal with reckless abandon!).Michelle Monaghan’s Christina Warren is adorable and her incredulous responses to Colter’s loony behavior are understandable and often hilarious. Despite how bored the writer seemed with making the budding attraction between the pair work-Colter’s initial proclamation of love is “You’re very decent”, oh how that would woo the ladies-Gyllenhaal and Monaghan are able to brew what little chemistry is needed here for an emotional investment. Vera Farmiga’s role takes place almost entirely in a swivel chair via webcam chat, but she too manages to soar above the limited nature of her character, playing Colleen Goodwin as a stern professional struggling with an internal, moral tug-of-war regarding her participation in the Source Code program". Source: collider.com